Re: ITP: keynote -- Decentralized Trust-Management system
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:59:17PM +0200, Martin Waitz wrote:
> hi :)
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:39:59AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > Permission to use, copy, and modify this software without fee
> > > is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice is included in
> > > all copies of any software which is or includes a copy or
> > > modification of this software.
> > So, what do you see wrong with this license? It looks like it is free to
> > me.
>
> i see 'without fee' conflicting with dfsg #6
This ambiguity is widespread in licenses (unfortunately). IMO, it is
correctly interpreted as 'you don't need to pay the author to do these
things', not 'you may not charge for these services'.
Jules
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